Rouleaux: Anastassia Elias’ New Book of Toilet Paper Roll Sculptures. If you’ve visited any art or design blog over the last few years you’ve almost certainly run into the artwork of Anastassia Elias who made waves in 2009/2010 with her wonderful back-lit paper dioramas inside of toilet paper tubes.

(click images for detail) For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer.

Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures. Of these works he says: So I carve landscapes out of books and I paint Romantic landscapes. Mountains of disused knowledge return to what they really are: mountains. Laramee’s next show will be in April of 2012 at the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal.
Ivan Argote. Artwork on the Behance Network. Jason Thielke. "CARIBBEAN VIBES" Scarf! - Joan Tarrago. "CARIBBEAN VIBES" Scarf!

Scarf Design & Explicative animation for "Caribbean Vibes" pattern design process. Scarf available at Frontrowsociety. Malikafavre. Matte Shot - a tribute to Golden Era special fx: June 2011. BLOG UPDATE: After being trapped in Queenstown, a picturesque resort town in the deep south of New Zealand for a number of days beyond my intended holiday due to the serious ash fallout all over NZ blown here from the Chilean volcanic eruption I'm a bit behind with some blog material.

I have just added a few more interesting pictures to my previous article Matte Artists at Work, including a great image of Harrison Ellenshaw painting a glass shot for Disney's NO DEPOSIT, NO RETURN (1976) as well as pics of Derek Meddings and Mike Trim painting for Gerry Anderson's fabulous THUNDERBIRDS tv show. I was going to include this selection of backings in the previous blog as many of the photos show the scenic artist at work, and a great many of these fellows eventually became matte painters such as Albert Whitlock, Peter Melrose, Emilio Ruiz, Brian Bishop, Jan Domela, Les Bowie, Cliff Culley and many more.

How did you get into illustration and design? I actually rolled into illustration only quite recently, after a good friend of mine, who works as an illustrator himself, encouraged me to use my spare time 3D doodles for commissioned work. Before, I never thought about doing illustration at all, since I was very focused on graphic, web and motion graphics design. What were your artistic influences growing up? In hindsight I’d have to say it were the works of Frank H. What is a day like for you? You know how some people seem to run on cigarettes or coffee? From start to finish, how does a concept come to life? That can really differ per project. The characters in your work are very lovable, where do you get the inspiration in creating them? Besides motion-graphics animation, do you experiment on using other mediums or techniques? What is the story behind your Ecology series?